How can I avoid automation failing if ESPHome node is offline?

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Hi everyone, maybe I’m missing something, but in the last few weeks I keep struggling with the lack of error handling capabilities of home assistant automation/scripting engine. I have 4 or 5 esphome devices included in some automations that sometimes go offline for various reasons. While all other automatons just keep going if something isn’t online, the whole block fails in these cases without notification and I have to manually check the logs to see what’s happening. They’re not vital devices and I’d prefer the automation to complete regardless of the esphome state.

i solved partially creating a script just for the esphome part and then calling the script.turn_on inside the automation, but this will create lots of duplicate scripts unnecessarily.

Any hint?
Thanks everyone!

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Put the non-vital services in a script and call it with the script.turn_on service. There is an explanation of why here: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/script/#waiting-for-script-to-complete

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Thanks, but as written, I’ve already partially solved this way, but this solution involves the creation of lots of unnecessary separate scripts, I was wondering if there’s a cleaner solution